Idk why the framing around the Trump-centric political realignment is so, like, wrong.
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And the divide (among voters, not among power) is almost entirely on what used to be called "social issues."
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The divide is between social revolutionaries and social reactionaries. Those who stand to benefit from change on one side...
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Those who stand to lose from change on the other.
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And it's interesting because the electorate is more or less the inverse of the power elite.
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The electorate has a workable consensus on economic issues, and is sharply divided on social issues.
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The most powerful Americans, by contrast, have a workable (if contested) consensus on social issues, and are sharply divided on economics.
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